I have an issue with how SIM cards are handled in most countries
I have an issue with how SIM cards are handled in most countries
Almost all countries require official authentication to activate a SIM card. This seems to me as a huge privacy problem, if the country can track sim cards across cell towers and connect them to a person. It seems like a dystopian system, that we litterely can not hide from our governments without turning off our smartphones. It seems incredibly unnecessary to me and just sets up the system to be abused.
Or do I understand something wrong?
What can we do against this? There are some sim cards that can be bought second hand, but they will not be a long term solution.
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I live in the Czech Republic and I can buy a SIM card in any supermarket. Put on some hat so I can't be recognized on a camera, wait some time so they delete their camera recordings, and I'm good to go. Not that I do that, though.
Thats why some people are making money by selling czech cards in Poland. A 10CZK sim costs ~25PLN (140CZK) on allegro.pl
Same in Russia. But once sim activated you have 1 month to register it or it will be blocked.
Depending on your activities, 1 month is about the lifespan of a burner anyway.
What payment methods can be used that can't be tracked?
cash
Confirming, you can use cash with no problem.
Cash and monero